Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-02-17
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matter. The forty-seven papers payed
in the year 1885, an aggregate amount of
S6,11369.
Richard Mcfarland has been commits
iioned postmaster at West Bend, Palo
Alto county, and Price A. Hooker at
Joburgh, Montgomery county.
! w. f. Judd, much respected farmer,
living near Mason City, in fit of
dependency brought on by the sickness
Of his son and daughter, who are afilict-
ed with consumption, attempted suicide
Feb. II, by strangulation, but was dis
covered in time to save his life.
Capt David T. Todd, one of the
leading commission merchants of Des
Moines, was found dead at his place of
business on the morning of Feb. 10. The
circumstances surrounding his death are
very mysterious. No one knows whether
it was murder or suicide
The board of regents of the State Uni
versity will convene at Iowa City on the
2Sth, to elect President to fill the va
cancy caused by the resignation of Presi.
dent Packard.
j. A. Smith, State mine inspector for
district No O. which comprises the north
eastern part of the State, reports the out
put of coal for the past year in his dis
trict to be /, 6S6, 200 tons. He feels
satisfied that the output of the State will
far exceed any previous year.
A Centerville dispatch, under date of
Feb. II, says: Intelligence has been re-
ceived of horrible shooting affair in
the northern part of Appanoose county.
1t was heartless, unprovoked and cold
blooded. The murderer. one George
Owens, fired two shots, one in the breast
of his victim, John Cloak, and the other
in his back as he ran. The difficulty was
over ten bushels of coal. He is not ex-
pected to recover.
Four of the county superintendants
elected in the state last fall have resigned
their posistons, which are now filed by
appointments made by the board of SUI
pervisors of the respective counties. The
designations are: d. Miller, of Jasper;
W. J. Mede, of Lee: Mary G. Brown of
Van Buren,. and Fl. T. Toye, of Kossuth.
The grand lodge of the Iowa Legion of
Honor will meet in Des Moines, COM
mencing March /, 1t will hold its session
in Good Templars' hall, and probably re-
main in session three or four days. This
organization is confined to this State,
haveng fraternal features as we'll as an
insurance of $4,000 to each member. II
has membership of nearly 5000, and
there will be in the neighborhood OF
nearly 200 delegates in attendance.
The Clarinda Herald has invested in a
Cottrell power press with folding attach
ments, and issued a twelve-pa town
booming edition to celebrate its prosper
ity.
A blooded COW in Poweshiek county
has given birth to tailless heifer calf.
Those who have endeavored to extract
the tactical fluid in fly time will hail this
as needed reform.
The total number of school children in
Iowa is 637,S7S of which 324,973 are
males and 312,9 05 females. The perma-
nent school fund of the state is 81, 1888,
S4461.
VIM. Holm was suffocated in well at
Des Moines, Feb. Z. The cause was foul
gases caused by blasting rock. He left
wife and two children.
1t is reported that Chancellor Ross will
retire from the law department of the
State University in June, and that the
position will be rendered to William G.
Hammond, of the st. Louis law school.
Chancellor Hammond was the founder of
the law department in the Iowa State
University.
In the district court at Dubuque, Feb.
I, sentence was pronounced on Mrs.
Margaret Brady for the murder of her
mother, to 10 years in the penitentiary.
The Ternes Boot and Shoe Manufactur
ing company, of Dubuque, having cap
ital stock of $4,000 filed articles Of
incorporation with the secretary of state
Mr.. a. F. Hepburn, of New York, who
is strongly recommended for railway
commissioner by the New York Mer
chants Committee is cousin of Repre-
sentative Hep5arn of Iowa.
Iowa railroad mail service changes
Red Oak to Eastport, over the Chicago
Burlington s. Quincy Rgls ay, so. 70 miles
from February 2s, 1887 70 extend thu
service from Eestpew. Iowa, to Neb
raska City, Nebraska, the distance to b.
hereafter stated. The name of the post
office at Harveyville, Marion county, ha
been changed to Harvey, and Albert A
Watts appointed postmaster.
A ST. LOUIS special says: Tho Unite'
States District Judge Treat rendered
decision in one of the most celebrated
manufacturing cases, which has OF lat
wears been in the courts, that of the low
Steel Barb Wire Co., of Marshalltown
Iowa, against the Southern Barb Wir'
| Company, of st Louis. The decision
was against the local company
declaring that the Ross patent TO
barb wire manufacturing, under which
the st. Louis company was operating, wa
infringement upon the Burnell paten
held by the Marshalltown company. Thi
suit has been pending for three years an
the decision Of Judge Treat is regarde
by lawyers as the most important wir
litigation since the decision of Judg
Drummond at Chicago in the Glidde
case of 1884.
| A wild cat was recently killed neal
| Eldora that measured about four feet IL
length, and weighed 40 pounds.
Arrangements have been made for the
preliminary survey of railroad line be
tween Algona and Belmont and 1t is ex
pected that the project will materalizt
rapidly.
The Crawford County Fair association
has disbanded and the grounds and i'm
provements at Denison will soon b.
sold to pay an Indebtedness OF 500. 1
is the oldest fair organization in tina
part of the state, the first exhibition hav
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